Case Study: Forest Grove helps Automotive Holdings Group eliminate obsolete inventory losses with KNIME

How Forest Grove built an end-to-end, automated inventory management solution

Forest Grove, a diversified automotive retailing and logistics group headquartered in Perth, needed a better way to manage spare parts inventory across its dealerships and reduce losses from obsolete stock. Its monthly analysis process was manual, cumbersome, and took up to two weeks, making it difficult to quickly identify opportunities to transfer parts between dealerships. KNIME Analytics Platform was used to address this challenge.

KNIME, working through partner Forest Grove, implemented an end-to-end automated data wrangling and reporting solution that handled extraction, transformation, storage, and dashboarding using technologies like Snowflake and Power BI. The result was a scalable and transparent single data repository with scheduled validation and reporting, allowing managers to identify transfer opportunities in minutes rather than weeks and significantly accelerating time to insight.

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